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OpenZFS removed offensive terminology from its code
On Wednesday evening, ZFS founding developer Matthew Ahrens submitted what should have been a simple, non-controversial pull request to the OpenZFS project: wherever possible without causing technical issues, the patch removed references to "slaves" and replaced them with "dependents."
This patch in question doesn't change the way the code functions—it simply changes variable names in a way that brings them in conformance with Linux upstream device-mapper terminology, in 48 total lines of code (42 removed and 48 added; with one comment block expanded slightly to be more descriptive).
But this being the Internet, unfortunately, outraged naysayers descended on the pull request, and the comments were quickly closed to non-contributors. I first became aware of this as the moderator of the r/zfs subreddit where the overflow spilled once comments on the PR itself were no longer possible.
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(Score: 2, Disagree) by Username on Saturday June 13 2020, @12:17AM (11 children)
Do we really need to limit speech and vocabulary just so some do not get triggered? What about White Sheets? What about Black the color itself? Should we rename it deluminate or 0? Should Black be 00000000, or is it racist to say blacks are 0?
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @12:28AM (1 child)
Yes. Free software needs to be a safe space for the severely autistic. Eliminating all social interaction in the free software community through fear will do the trick.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Saturday June 13 2020, @01:07AM
Please remove yourself and all like you from my safe space, the innertubes.
Kthxbye.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @01:26AM (3 children)
Who is limiting anyone?
You are free to use whatever terminology you want, but don't expect others to play by your rules. Normal people will move on, adopt the new terminology, and no one will care. Well, cept for people like you angry about more inclusive language.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @01:34AM
You are free to toe the line, shut up and accept the CoC, and maybe you won't be cancelled for being too white, cishet, or male.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @05:39PM (1 child)
Agreed. I am not a fan of the transgender pronoun thing either.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @08:58PM
Dick girl here. Butbut why does nobody use male pronouns with me? Can't you tell I have an extra 2mm of bone here on my face, and shirely your acute hearing must be able to distinguish between a real womyn's voice and mine? Why do you keep attacking cislesbians in the bathroom and misgendering them while you let me get in close to you where my sexy pheromones can hack your brain, and then the next thing you know it's too late and you feel all 9 inches of my girl cock sliding up tween your asscheeks pumping you full of girl jizz.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @01:44AM
Are you saying that you believe all blacks are naughty?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @03:31PM (2 children)
Spoken like someone who has never been triggered. PTSD is a horrible, horrible illness and more people have it than you think, you insensitive clod.
Getting triggered will leave you nauseous and shaking from the adrenaline overdose, unable to concentrate effectively from the cortisol overload, crying, and then you'll feel like you only ran two marathons this morning (from some other hormone misfire). Bonus embarrassment if you're a guy, because some assholes still take a dim view of men who cry for any reason at all.
And that's if you're lucky, and your health plan has paid for the extensive psychotherapy and biofeedback training required to manage the physical symptoms, and have your tranquilizers right handy.
You can live in ignorance and anger, or in knowledge and understanding. You've clearly got access to the internet, so don't tell us that you couldn't find out anything.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @08:40PM (1 child)
The GP may not have, but I have and this is a load of crap. Yes, PTSD is difficult to live with, in part because of how quickly one can get triggered, but Jesus H. Christ, if you avoid being triggered, you also avoid learning how to cope with being triggered.
Getting triggered does suck, but it's an inherent aspect of the diagnosis. Whether it's an unkind word spoken or just a random association that sparks the triggering, either way, the sufferer needs to figure out how to moderate their emotions or it's just going to continue to flare up. Ultimately people with PTSD can learn to regulate their emotional reactions to things, it's just a long term project that requires a great deal of work and self-control.
I'm definitely not saying that having those things can't help, just that you don't need most of that stuff to successfully recover from PTSD. I had it extremely bad when I was younger and apart from therapy and a bit of medication, I managed just fine without anything that's not available to anybody with access to mental health medical care.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2020, @03:39AM
So even pussy assed victim-identifiers use the "fuck you, got mine" offense.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Sunday June 14 2020, @02:49AM
Black, black, black
Is the colour
Of my true love's hair.